News you can relate to

Some news stories that caught our eye this week:

• Charles Saatchi, Nigella Lawson’s husband, was photographed choking her in public this week. The usual rush of excuses and justifications for his behavior followed as well as opinions and demands around what Nigella should do next. But, as one journalist asked: “why are we making demands of a victim, when we should be making demands of a perpetrator?”

• In better news, the controversial HPV vaccine is working even though only one-third of girls aged 13 to 17 have been vaccinated.

• The World Health Organization issued a report on domestic violence worldwide this week after analyzing information from 86 countries: “Experts estimated nearly 40 percent of women killed worldwide were slain by an intimate partner.”